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General => The Shed => Topic started by: ACE on December 24, 2006, 10:42:55
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Why all of a sudden do the stores think we are all going to rush out on boxing day and buy a new kitchen or bathroom.
Surely it could wait a day or two and let us get over xmas and give the staff their holidays.
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and don't even think of popping to the supermarket for any food, the queues! I cannot understand why with more supermarkets and freezers people can't do there shopping to last 2-3 days so the staff can have a holiday as well.
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Well looking in our freezer(s) and cupboards, I reckon we could eat for a month with no ill effects ...
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My OH always has enough in our house to feed the 5000 but still went shopping friday, saturday and today..... :o
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Mine sent me to Sainsbos earlier in the week... got in early @8:00am just coming out as it got busy...
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OH went shopping with our crackpot mate at 9.30pm :o the other night got home 2.00am her mate loves it OH said never again. :P :P ;D ;D ;D ??? ??? ???
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Its all part of the silly siege mentality. The shops will be closed for one, and in some cases, two days!! There is no need to buy to feed the 5,000 for two days.
Run out of booze, then that's another situation altogether!!
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I refust to play the seige game,
All I buy is some extra milk to do me for 2 days instead of 1.
(or maybe Im too tight a***d) ;D ;D ;D
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Our milk is delivered so no rush out. Apart from that we have enough to live off for a month at a time. Apart from fresh veg which we pick up from the lottie as we need it.
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Crazy crazy crazy. I did my last foody trip on Thursday morning early. It was so good to know that I was not going to have to queue etc for anything. It is possible to miss all the madness.
Hope you have all had a nice quiet Xmas and are well fed.
Good pressie of a mug with No1 slug hunter on it plus a book with 50 ways to kill them. If all fails use the book to squash the blighter's. Did just have to pop out this morning and do al little diggin. XX
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Why all of a sudden do the stores think we are all going to rush out on boxing day and buy a new kitchen or bathroom.
Surely it could wait a day or two and let us get over xmas and give the staff their holidays.
....and why is every other bleeding advert for sofas/kitchens etc etc.....do peeps wake up with a desperate urge for a new sofa on Boxing Day or what????????
Grrrrr
Louise
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Makes me glad, at times like this, that I don't watch television ... :)
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"....and why is every other bleeding advert for sofas/kitchens etc etc.....do peeps wake up with a desperate urge for a new sofa on Boxing Day or what????????"
Having had some of the ads on (admittedly with the mute button on) what makes the manufacturers think that you would like a depressing load of black leather furniture in your lounge. When you see some of the displays in the ads, you have to wonder what planet they are on. I don't think our bungalow is small by average standards, but to accommodate their furniture displays you would need to be living in a palace. The same with the kitchen displays.
Rant over, but you do really wonder what market their admen are aiming at. Not the general joe-public.
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you do really wonder what market their admen are aiming at. Not the general joe-public
I think they're aimed at the aspirations of consumers, not there real lives :-\
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And I bet we all rush out to buy the 'hoochie koochie' hotplate (well thats what it sounds like) ;D
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I'm intrigued ACE, I don't watch much tv and haven;t seen any over christmas - what is it? :-\
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Go on Ace give us a clue!
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I think they're aimed at the aspirations of consumers, not there real lives :-\
So right, MT! ...
As in
"If I buy this huge shiny Neff kitchen and monster-sized red L-shaped sofa combi, they will instantly transform my small-ish Edwardian rooms into that huge place I saw on Grand Designs"...
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I'm intrigued ACE, I don't watch much tv and haven;t seen any over christmas - what is it? :-\
Would that be that (nameless) kitchen ad. with the woman who believes a zester 'sums her up'?! and therefore gets an orange kitchen? ???
The hotplate thingy / japenese hot stone? :-\ looks the biggest waste of space, but then of course, if you have a kitchen of that magnitude I guess it doesn't matter if you only use a chunk if it once a year....
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Those ads that say - "they asked me to show them an item that sums up my kitchen"..........drove me mad ! Stupid ads by stupid people! I love to think up daft things that would give them real problems working my ideal kitchen out!
In my experience (twice) you choose a kitchen that you like - find you can't afford it - and settle for the next best thing! Or is that just me?
As for Martin Kemp and his flipping sofa ads - can't he find a proper job? .......get ressurected on Eastenders or somthink?
Louise
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Had two holiday brochures plop through my door already. ::)
They plopped straight in the bin. ;D
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:) Hope that was the re-cycle bin Emagggie. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Husband and I got picked up at silly o'clock yesterday morning by my sister and mum who wanted to be at the doors of Van Hages for the start of their sale! I didn't want to disappear under the feet of 400 stampeding women so I retreated into the book department until the cafe opened ;D
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:) Hope that was the re-cycle bin Emagggie. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Noooooooooooo CK, too glossy. ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Husband and I got picked up at silly o'clock yesterday morning by my sister and mum who wanted to be at the doors of Van Hages for the start of their sale!
Watch it Kiddo! Your mum'n'me's been swapping mails about all the quantities of Christmas cards, wrapping paper, labels and bows we've bought at half-price and less 8) SHOP EARLY FOR CHRISTMAS, that's what we say ;D
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you and me both Lish. Got ALL the cards for next year already. My Nunhead friend bought hers from the same shop but we got different boxes to make sure we weren't sending each other the same ones. ;D The OH dragged me to Regent Street to spend his christmas dosh which was torture so I repaid the favour by dragging him to a garden centre to buy some compost for my cuttings ..... blisss !
Best tv ad has been the Irn Bru snowman letting go of the little boys hand ......... priceless
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Can't stand the sales and there's so much cr*p on TV that I opted to work over the festive period for the following reasons:
1. It tends to be very, very quiet so we can amuse ourselves (i've been doing next years planting plan)
2. The company arranges for our Xmas lunch to be brought in, and it's very nice.
3. I get special payments for working Xmas day, Boxing day etc so it's easy money.
4. No stress, no washing up, no arguments over who's doing what, lots of choccies.
CC
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I used to do the same when I worked shifts. I did 48 hours straight over the millennium at several times the normal rate. No such luck these days, but at least I get nice long holidays.
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ROBERT! I am Well and Truly SHOCKED :o :o :o
You're a Blackleg to the Teacher Community & Must Toe the Party Line Immediately at peril of being thrown out of this Esteemed Profession and risk queing at the Job Centre for a post where one is expected to work an 8hr day for 5-6 days a week with 2 weeks holiday to be taken during the Firm's slack period....
Detention for you MeLad, writing out "teachers are overworked, underpaid and do NOT EVER EVER have so called 'long holidays'"
And please wash your fingers thoroughly in Carbolic soap before undertaking the task.
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Ah, but if we didn't have decent breaks, we'd all have breakdowns, the mental health services would collapse under the strain, and there would be total mayhem with nobody getting any education at all.